A mellow Mike Tyson was much more welcome to these fans after Wednesday’s plane incident.
After punching an annoying passenger on an airplane, Mike Tyson looks like a happy camper, posing for selfies with his fans.
In a recent video obtained by TMZ, Mike was smiling and smoking as he reached outside the Eden Roc Miami hotel upon his arrival on Thursday evening. He was attending a cannabis conference in town, and he greeted guests outside the lobby.
Following the incident, the sporting star was closely followed by his entourage and security team.
As a boxer and outside the ring, Tyson has seen his share of violence.
As a 55-year-old former boxer, Tyson was spotted in public for the first time since the video of him hurling powerful punches at a man’s face behind him on a plane. Mike’s sources say the man threw a water bottle at the champion before the fight started.
According to San Francisco police, officers reached the incident and detained two people, treating one for injuries that were not life-threatening, although the victim refused to cooperate with the police investigation.
Despite Tyson’s Thursday flight drama, he seemed to be in a happy mood. A visit from San Francisco to Miami was scheduled for him to serve as the primary speaker at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference. Late last year, he launched his Tyson 2.0 line of bud, and has risen quickly through the ranks of the marijuana business.
Tyson Holistic, the business he runs, has sold marijuana legally since 2016.
It was ealier reported that, in a video that surfaced online Thursday, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is seen repeatedly punching a fellow passenger on an airplane.
Tyson’s representative Joann Mignano confirmed the altercation, which took place Wednesday aboard a JetBlue flight that was on the tarmac in San Francisco before heading to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat.”
The brief video of the incident shows a man in the seat behind Tyson standing over the boxer’s seat trying to talk to him as Tyson remains quiet.
A shot from a different angle then shows Tyson crouching over his seat, pummelling the passenger behind him. Another nearby passenger tries to stop Tyson from punching the man and audio can be heard of someone saying, “Hey Mike, Mike, hold on.”
The passenger who was beaten was left with a bloodied face. No water bottle was seen in the released footage.
San Francisco Police were alerted to the incident and “were dispatched to a physical altercation onboard an airplane located at the Domestic Terminal of the San Francisco International Airport,” at around 10 p.m. Wednesday.
Police said they detained two people involved in the altercation and that one of them was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
“That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,” the police said.
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San Francisco police did not identify either of the people they detained but confirmed that both were released, “pending further investigation.”
One passenger who was on the flight, Sarah Burchfield, said she saw the man who Tyson beat up at an airport bar just before the flight. According to her, the man was loud and quarrelsome.
“When I boarded the flight, I thought, ‘Oh no, that drunk guy is on our flight,’” Burchfield told local news outlet, SF Gate.
When she boarded the flight she noticed Tyson sitting in first class.
“I’m like, ‘Oh my god, Mike Tyson is on this flight!’ He said hi and I kept walking,” she said. “The belligerent guy was sitting right behind him and I saw they were interacting.”
Tyson was in San Francisco on Wednesday to promote his cannabis brand at the 420 Hippie Hill event in Golden Gate Park.
JetBlue Airways has not yet released a statement about the altercation on their flight.
TMZ Sports was the first to obtain video of the incident.
